Give a link. Take a link.

By Sean McGrath, ITworld.com

From time to time in convenience stores I come across "Take a cent, leave a cent" plates at the checkout counter. You buy something for 9.99. Leave your cent change behind you for the next guy. You buy something for 15:51. You need a cent. Just take one from the plate.

The city of Copenhagen in Denmark has a bicycle renting schemewhich allows you to take a bike for about 3 dollars and just leave it back at one of the many bike racks around the city when you are finished. Ain't humanity great! Let's get warm and fuzzy for a moment before we get colder and more pointed.

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Too many blogs? Or just too many bad blogs?

By Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com

We want trained professionals, rather than amateurs, to fix our computers when they break down, and we want trained professionals, rather than amateurs, to educate our children. Why then, has there come to be an attitude that blogging and unedited "citizen journalism" practiced by amateurs is equal or superior to the work done by professional writers and journalists? Blogs have value and serve a purpose, of course. But let's take them for what they are. Blogs are not news. They are not journalism. They do, however, represent an ongoing dialogue in response to news and journalism. And it's good to have a dialogue.

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